Golabazar Gorakhpur. Pandit Ram Lakhan Shukla, who hoisted the tricolor at Gola police station during the Quit India Movement in 1942 during the British rule, is alive in the memories of the people. But in independent India, the administration at the police station forgot him from the very beginning. This is the reason that despite the pistol being pressed against his chest, there is not even a memorial plaque of that historical event at the Gola police station where he hoisted the tricolor during the British rule.
Pandit Ram Lakhan Shukla, born in a landlord family in village Kakarhi, located four km north of Gola on the Gola-Kaudiram road, jumped into the freedom movement when he was a second year Intermediate student. In those days, the focal point of national consciousness was Khopapar village of Gola police station area. Pandit Ram Lakhan Shukla was appointed teacher in Khopapar National School. In 1939, he was made the principal of this school. In 1940, Mitra started teaching at Anand Vidya Peeth Inter College established by freedom fighter late Keshabhan Rai in Kakarhi.
On April 6, 1941, taking permission from the District Committee of Congress, Ram Lakhan Shukla, Rambachan Tripathi and Sitaram Nayak started Satyagraha in the garden behind the school. All three were arrested and sent to jail. The three brave sons were each sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 100.
Despite having the barrel of the pistol pressed against his chest, he did not get afraid and hoisted the Tricolor on the police station. SHO Nurul Hoda of Gola pointed his pistol at the chest of Mr. Shukla, his associates Rambachan Tripathi and Sitaram Nayak. Even with the barrel of the pistol pressed against his chest, he guarded the tricolor at the police station without caring for his life. He was arrested. Everyone's ancestral residence was burnt by the British. The parents were tortured. All three were released in 1944–45.
Political journey started in independent India, became head of Gola in 1960
Pandit Ramlakhan Shukla's political journey started in independent India, but politics started with his election as the chief of Gola in 1960. Bhowvapar was the MLA of the Legislative Assembly from 1962-67. When the name of the Legislative Assembly was changed, he remained the MLA from Kaudiram Legislative Assembly from 1969-74. Meanwhile, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave him 18 acres of land in Nainital. He donated it to the government. This brave son passed away on 19 November 1974.
It hurts due to neglect, there is no memory of the historical moment at the police station. The memory of this brave son, who visited jail several times to liberate the country, is in the hearts of the people, but the historical moment of the tricolor hoisted by him at the Gola police station is There is no witness of anything. This neglect of the freedom fighter not only hurts his family members, the people of the area are also hurt by this neglect of the rulers and politicians. Pandit Ramlakhan Shukla had three sons.
One of them Chandrashekhar Shukla was elected MLA of Dhuriapar. Now he is not there. Saroj Ranjan Shukla, elder son of late Chandrashekhar Shukla, is a lecturer in Anand Vidyapeeth Inter College- Kakarhi. On the right side of the college gate, the then Cabinet Minister of the state, Late Markandey Chand has installed the life size statues of freedom fighter Ram Lakhan Shukla and freedom fighter Keshabhan Rai.
The demand for installing the statue remains incomplete even after years. Saroj Ranjan Shukla, grandson of freedom fighter Pandit Ramlakhan Shukla, says that he had sent a letter to the government on August 6, 2010 to install the statue of Pandit Ramlakhan Shukla at Nausadh intersection but it was ignored. . Fairs will be organized every year at the tombs of martyrs. This will be the final destination for those who died on earth.
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